ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF N. S. WALES. xvii 



2nd FEBRUARY, 1863. 

 William MacLeat, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The President offered for distribution among the Members 

 specimens of a Bemhidiimi, which he said was evidently very near 

 both in habit and appearance to the Gillenum laterale of Haliday ; 

 Ent. Mag. IV., p. 251. He stated that the species on the table to 

 which he proposed to give the name flavescens, had been 

 frequently found by him, and always in the same locality, in 

 Middle Harbour. He had first seen the insect on the 10th 

 October, 1861, and he had twice captured some on the same spot 

 within the last month. They seemed to be abundant in the early 

 part of summer on sandy beaches, in certain localities, but always 

 so far below high water mark, that they must be immersed 

 quite 12 hours out of the 24, — 6 hours at a time. Haliday 

 had stated, that the species which he had observed and de- 

 sci-ibed, C. laterale, actually seemed to be nearly drowned twice 

 in every 24 hours. 



Dr. Cox exhibited a collection of Coleoptera from the district 

 of Rylstone, containing a new Phalidura, a new Amycterus, and 

 many rare insects. 



Mr. W. J. Stephens exhibited a collection of insects which 

 he had lately made at Fernhill, Mulgoa, containing several rare 

 species, such as Stigmodera Goriji, Passandra cylindrica, and the 

 Omma Stanleiji of Newman, an insect remarkable not only for its 

 extreme rarity, but from the difficulty of defining its true 

 affinities. 



Mr. Masters exhibited a well filled box of very choice insects, 

 containing, among the more remarkable novelties, a Panops from 

 Double Bay, a Prophanes from Eastern Creek, and a Schizorkina, 

 resembling somewhat the S. obliquata of Westwood, a Callirldpis, 

 and specimens of Schizorhina palmata, from the neighbourhood 

 of Windsor. 



